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Recommended Reading: Review of The Lean CEO by Jacob Stoller

December 7, 2016 by Joel A. Gross 1 Comment

The best Lean books for beginners from The Lean Book Shop

Recommended Reading is brought to you by The Lean Book Shop.  For the learner, not the critic, Recommended Reading provides a concise summary of the key themes, concepts and learning points that will add the greatest value to your Lean journey.  Featured books will include new and significant texts from the world of Lean thinking, as well as other hand-selected pieces that will drive the continuous improvement . . . of you.  

This month’s recommended reading from The Lean Book Shop:

The Lean CEO by Jacob Stoller

lean leadership books, lean leadership

The Lean CEO

The Value-Add of The Lean CEO

Disclosure:  I was provided with a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review. 

It’s well-established in the Lean community that most new Lean initiatives rarely meet expectations, and the natural response is to ask why?  Do so, and you’re likely to discover that one theme is cited above the rest:

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The Best Lean Books for Beginners

October 24, 2016 by Joel A. Gross 1 Comment

Only the Best Lean Books from the Lean Book Shop

Want to know the best Lean books for beginners?  Before you read any further, I want you to answer a very simple question:  what is Lean to you?  Go ahead and take a minute.  Jot down your thoughts if it helps.

Did you struggle to answer the question clearly and concisely?

The Struggle to Learn

The single, most important concept for you to develop as a new Lean learner is a clear mental model that answers the question, what is Lean?   Unfortunately, this is an area in which our current methods of Lean education are failing . . . badly.

If you are like most most people, your initial exposure to Lean thinking probably came in the form of a death-by-Power-Point, classroom-based “training”.  Consequently, your mental model for what Lean is probably resembles a toolbox.  To be practiced individually, you likely relate gaining proficiency in Lean to learning how to pick-and-choose the right “tools” to meet the needs of your specific situations.

I hate to break it to you, but this thinking could not be further from reality.

The Lean toolbox mental model fails in two very important ways: [Read more…]

 

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